Men's Swimming & Diving at NCAA Division III Championships

Klontz Caps Career With Another All-America Swim

SHENANDOAH, Texas – Erik Klontz (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) concluded his stellar senior season with a seventh-place showing in the 100-yard freestyle to earn his second individual All-America award of the 2013 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships.

Klontz, who was the national runner-up in the 50-yard freestyle on Thursday, becomes the sixth member of the Carleton men’s swimming and diving program to turn in multiple individual All-America performances at a single national championship. (SEE CHART BELOW)

Those swims, coupled with the Knights’ 200-yard freestyle relay picking up All-America Honorable Mention, gave Carleton 31 points in the team competition to place 26th out of 49 squads that tallied points at the national meet. Kenyon College won the team title for the 32nd time in the last 34 seasons.

During the morning preliminary swims, Klontz touched the wall at 44.58, only 0.06 second off his school-record time established at this year’s MIAC Championships. In the championship heat on Saturday evening, Klontz closed his career with a time of 45.02.

On Thursday, Klontz joined with fellow senior Mamoru Kanazawa (Tokyo, Japan/St. Mary's International) and rookies Stephen Grinich (McMinnville, Ore./McMinnville) and George McAneny (Santa Cruz, Calif./Santa Cruz) to earn All-American Honorable Mention in the 200 free relay. Today, the quartet raced the 400-yard freestyle relay and trimmed nearly 2.5 seconds off the school record (3:06.15) they established at this year’s conference meet, taking 18th overall at nationals with a time of 3:03.47